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UN report paints dark picture of Syria’s escalating violence
The report plays out two scenarios for the massacre, both of which it says are possible.
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Troops with machine guns opened fire on rebels in Syria’s northwest commercial hub of Aleppo on Saturday amid reports of sniper fire and clashes in Damascus overnight.
Clashes between Syrian troops and opposition fighters in Damascus continue amid claims from the opposition that President Assad is now in the coastal city of Latakia.
Heavy fighting in the streets of Damascus follows a bomb blast which killed Syria’s defence minister, deputy defence minister – President Assad’s brother-in-law – and a senior military official.
Confirmation came this morning that a confidant of President Assad of Syria has defected, writes Jonathan Rugman, and that will give some hope to those hoping to encourage President Assad to quit.
The report plays out two scenarios for the massacre, both of which it says are possible.
Gunmen kill journalists and security guards at a pro-government television station near Damascus, after President Bashar al-Assad says the country is in a “state of war”.
Foreign Secretary William Hague condemns Syria’s attack on a Turkish jet as “outrageous” as the wreckage of the downed plane is found.
While the US accuses Russia of supplying Syrian attack helicopters, the Pentagon defends its own $1bn deal with the same Moscow arms dealer.
United Nations monitors enter the village in Syria where a massacre was reported, hours after the organisation’s chief warns that civil war is an “imminent and real” danger.
Syria’s President Assad condemns last Sunday’s massacre in Houla, describing it as an ‘abominable act, but offers no specific response to international envoy Kofi Annan’s call to end the conflict.
Troops have been deployed in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli after 15 people were killed in fighting related to Syria’s uprising.
Syria is tilting closer towards “all-out” civil war, international envoy Kofi Annan says, as eight are killed in Lebanon in clashes between supporters and opponents of President Assad.
Channel 4 News challenges the Syrian ambassador before the UN Human Rights Council’s special session probing the Houla massacre after 13 more bodies are discovered.
Bashar and Asma al-Assad, Syria’s one-time golden couple, beguiled the West, then betrayed their own people. In the aftermath of the Houla massacre, Channel 4 News’s Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller considers evidence of President Assad’s personal responsibility for crimes against humanity.
As outrage grows over the Houla massacre, Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller considers evidence of President Assad’s personal responsibility for crimes against humanity.